slatey
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 7, 2015
Upon quitting this district, the country became far more dreary: it appeared nothing but a dry and sterile region, the soil being remarkably hard and slatey.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.
The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel
The poet's tomb was disappointing in its unlovely simplicity, its stern, slatey hue.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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